It's getting great reviews on TV.

LadyLuvSexxy said:

Amen.

CalhounSq said:

F'reals, man.

It's Transformers 2. Certainly, you can't have expected Citizen Kane.

Lammastide said:

is it too much to at least expect the high caliber of snakes on a plane?

JustErin said:

aw, thanks. you're pretty hot yourself.

and don't worry, it's not poo i'm eating. it's tofurkey un-giblets, which is so awful i could only be so lucky to be eating my own doodie.

JustErin said:

Yes and No, this movie is based on a popular childrens toy/cartoon, but is obviously aimed towards adults. With the violence and crude humor, I wouldn't recomend this for children. As for the rest of us? I would rather get my colon checked than re-watch this crap!

Some say,"it's a Transformers movie! What do you expect?" I understand that questioning, but is it too much to ask for a story line. Maybe a little explaination about who is who and what the fuck is going on. I don't need much to enjoy a movie, but I do need to know who the character are, what their main objective is, and why I should care if they live or die!

jockeyb4u said:

jockeyb4u said:

I loved the transformers cartoons. I enjoyed the whole mythology of it.

I think the 1987 animated film did a decent job. The music was awesome.

jockeyb4u said:

That's true. You could use the same reasoning to write off the first two Spider-Man and Superman films (they are based on kids' comic books so what do you expect?) and those were very good films.

sextonseven said:

I don't care how bad it is, but I better win a ride in a jet-fighter!

ZombieKitten said:

If you win, you might think it's the best movie ever!

coolcat said:

Actually, they kept talking about NOT pooping lol

JustErin said:

I think, though, that even those who have this attitude are walking out of the movie saying it sucked ...

sextonseven said:

[Edited 6/25/09 0:13am]

ZombieKitten said:

I first saw Transformers at the I-Max in Melbourne
Left feeling quite disorientated

muirdo said:

I saw Night at the Museum II there a few weeks ago, it was cool and there is no way I'm seeing Transformers there, the MAX screen at Village is huge enough

sextonseven said:

Spiderman was awful!

But then again, I don't really like these movies and don't care about the story lines...I just see them for the graphics and such.

Byron said:

That sucks then...I'm still gonna check it out. My son wants to see it. I think it's gonna be too much for him...but he's insisting that it's not.

We'll see.

I have to come out of lurk mode to say that this movie was the dumbest pile of shit ever. I grew up watching the transformers so I was anxiously awaiting this movie....(I even took off a day from work to see this shit). I need to whoop my own ass.

My complaints (spolier warning)....

1. How you gonna give Soundwave 5 minutes of screen time? Soundwave was in every damn episode, yet Michael Bay continues to ignore him.... yet he puts those idiotic ghetto twins, who didn't even exits in the series, in the whole damn movie.

2.Speaking of the idiotic ghetto twins, what is their purpose? Didn't Michael Bay get the memo from George Lucas about the equally idiotic JarJar Binks? Do we really need 2 jive talking transformers, one which had gold teeth? Who were they supposed to appeal to? I'm begining to think Bay has a problem with Black folks. He killed of Jazz, didn't bring him back, and then creates two obvious bafoon, stepin/fetchit type characters????? WTF????

3. Why do the autobots look like they did in the cartoons, but the deceptacons just all look grey? Starscream was red, Soundwave was blue, etc. All the deceptagons just look a boring dull grey and you can't really tell who they are unless they are talking?

4. What is the purpose of the chic/transformer that seduces Sam? That shit could have been cut. What was the purpose of the little thing humping the girlfriends leg and that old ass transformer? That entire story line should have been edited out.

I had read on the internet that the story line was supposed to be about Soundwave bringing back Megatron and Megatron and Starscream battling it out for leader with humans and autobots just thrown in the mix. That would have made a much better story than this hot mess.

JustErin said:

I'm a movie snob so I normally don't like these kind of films either, but being a comic book fan, I feel compelled to see many of them. The first two Spider-Man movies were two of the very few that I thought were done well.

My brother is a Transformers freak and he loved the first movie. I thought it sukked. Unless the special effects in this second film get nominated for an Oscar, I won't be seeing it.

Agreed

illimack said:

Here's Bay's lame-ass copout (basically, it's the voice actors' fault):

Director Michael Bay insists that the bumbling 'bots are just good clean fun.

"We're just putting more personality in," Bay said. "I don't know if it's stereotypes - they are robots, by the way. These are the voice actors. This is kind of the direction they were taking the characters and we went with it."

TV actor Reno Wilson, who is black, voices Mudflap. Tom Kenny, the white actor behind SpongeBob SquarePants, voices Skids. Neither immediately responded to interview requests for this story.

Bay said the twins' parts "were kind of written but not really written, so the voice actors is when we started to really kind of come up with their characters."

illimack said:

My head hurts after reading this I agree that you should kick your own ass, especially for skipping work to see this shit

JustErin said:

I wouldn't even let my nearly 9 year old see it - it has an M-rating here which means 15+

JustErin said:

good point

ZombieKitten said:

Erin's son will be sitting with his gf in the front row at a Britney Spears show. He can handle anything.

sextonseven said:

silly me

JustErin said:

If you want "amazing CGI", go check out Up in 3D.

Rogue588 said:

She already has

I must admit that I quite enjoyed the first Transformers movie, it worked well
for what it was and I certainly wasn't expecting Citizen Kane from a movie
based on a kids cartoon and toy series.

However, the second one SUCKED big time! How could they have got it SO
wrong after they got it pretty right on the first one? Sure the action sequences
were great, but the plotting and dialog was appalling. It made the first movie
look like a work of genius by comparison. It was like Michael Bay said "Quick,
make sure we don't have any lulls in the action longer than 30 seconds, or
people might realize we forgot to write a cohesive plot, decent dialog or any
character development!" The whole movie was just an excuse to string
together as many fight sequences and explosions as humanly possible!
If you have a movie that just has explosion followed by explosion followed
by explosion, you just get numbed to it all, and sequences that should be a
'wow!' moment, just gets lost in the onslaught.

If you just watch it as a 'spectacle' or '2 hour trailer' (i.e. no plot, just money
shots), then it's great entertainment. Just remember to turn your brain off
before buying a ticket. As for the ghetto twin transformers, they have got to
be the most serious mis-step in taste and borderline racism to (dis)grace the
big screen since Jar Jar Binks! (In fact, imagine a movie with 2 Jar Jars
turned up to 11 and you have some idea how bad they were). And on top
of their embarrassing banter, there was also a lot of really inappropriate
sexual jokes for a kids movie.

The annoying thing was that there was a half decent movie in there
somewhere. Unfortunately it was buried under layers of poor direction.
head shakingly bad scripting and a complete taste bypass.